Sentence examples for mark of cleverness from inspiring English sources

These are the same people who use the word as a definitive intelligence measure – see the snobbery over Jamie Redknapp last year – which in my mind is as much of an error as using a specific piece of knowledge as a mark of cleverness ("X% of Americans don't know where Armenia is! So stupid…").

Is being able to remember facts a mark of cleverness, and is it more or less important than logical reasoning?

And the director, A. Curtis Farrow, seems to think that having his singers mug wildly is a sign of cleverness.

You've also got your Friday-level, question mark-studded hints of cleverness, like "Assistance for short people?", which turns out punnily enough to be the rather common word LOANS.

The more important smell test is one of tone: that cocktail of cleverness, warmth, and mania that marked the Henson years.

We've got lots of cleverness".

They clear only the lowest bar of cleverness, like puns.

If anyone died of cleverness it was Hugh Everett.

All of "Live By Night" is written with that same degree of cleverness and care.

Remember, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.

A field born of cleverness and audacity is now ruled by something else: fear of failure.